Japan's former defense minister Hamada and the UAP caucus

Jesse Michels in Japan, uploaded 6 November 2026, with former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada, who chairs the Diet's UAP caucus and calls non-human visitation a strong hypothesis, and with caucus founder Yoshiharu Asakawa, who describes childhood sightings toward Mount Fuji. Michels retells the 2025 Genkai nuclear plant lights and says caucus members who inspected the site rejected the aircraft explanation. Former MP Atsushi Hayasaka describes a roadside encounter with lost time and a scar behind his ear, and caucus secretary general Teruo Manabe and prime ministerial adviser Takashi Endo speak briefly.

Leads to follow

• AARO's 2023 report, which Michels says flagged a corridor from western Japan toward China on data back to 1996; find the primary record.
• A Ministry of Defense document Asakawa read on camera, which Michels says denies officially documented UAP cases in wording that leaves room for unknown foreign objects; the Japanese text is not captioned.
• Michels' hypothesis (speculation): the Lockheed bribery scandal, revealed by the Church subcommittee in February 1976, which led to Kakuei Tanaka's arrest on 27 July 1976; Kissinger's move to keep the Japanese recipients' names secret; and Harald Malmgren, who advised Tanaka, as a Tokyo back channel, all as a possible route for retrievals on allied soil. Loose threads only.
• A citizen told Asakawa he has a personal UFO 'always waiting for him whenever he wants' (anonymous, chain: unnamed citizen, Asakawa, Michels). A lone unnamed tale; not for featured pages.

Notes

• The Japanese answers are not in the captions, so guests' words are known only as Michels or the English voice-over relays them.
• Michels calls Teruo Manabe the caucus's current secretary general; person/yoshiharu-asakawa says Asakawa runs the secretariat. Michels also calls Asakawa a former member. Manabe and Takashi Endo spellings unchecked.
• Takashi Endo, described as a direct adviser to the prime minister, says: 'We still don't know whether this was deliberately covered up.' (1:38)
• Michels promises more episodes from Japan: a pyramid-shaped mountain near Fukushima with a UFO museum, and the Kofu incident of 1975.